Recovery

Today was the Murray Fun Days 5K. I did a 2.5 mile warm up with Amanda, Sarah, and Emily around Murray Park, then a POTTY break. After POTTY break with the ginormous toilets, I changed shoes and went to the starting line for drills and strides. A few minutes later we weren't allowed to do strides anymore, and I was upset. I started out way too fast, and at about mile 2 was when my foot started hurting really badly, which slowed me down a TON. I could have at least ran under 20, but no, my stupid foot decided to be a jerk. I went on a cool down with the team, and we found ourselves running in the parade, heeheehee. After Natalie and I had our medals, we went on more of a cool down around the park to be at 8.

Today we met at Sunnyside Park for our run. The advanced group went up Sunnyside Avenue to Foothill, down to Guardsmin, and up to Shriners. I was able to keep up with the main group, and when we got to the drinking fountain we gathered, then ran up to 11th avenue and to a little bit past the fire station. I ran the rest of the run with Amanda and Gio, and we were at about an 8:40 pace. We turned around at mile 4 and came back the same way. For the last mile, I don't know what got into me, but suddenly I was at a 7:15 pace, and at one point a 6:30. I don't even know... I did 3 sets of 10 pushups and 15 crunches. I can do an almost man push up now! I just need to work on getting lower.

We met at Cottonwood Complex for our workout today. We started with a lap around the softball diamond, and there was this crazy drunk guy yelling at us, something about sea turtles being white, and he never knew that they were sea turtles. We then continued our warm up by going to 13th east, to 39th south, down to 11th east, over to 45th south, and back into the complex. As we ran along 11th I yelled "Happy Birthday Emily!" at my friend's house, because she's 16 today, woot!! After the warm up, we introduced the freshmen to Big Bessie, the hill of all the hills at Cottonwood Complex. We went over to the field and did 8 strides, then returned to Bessie to do 4 finishing loops from the region course. After Bessie, we got water and then jogged the entire course for a cool down. We were going to play ultimate frisbee...But we were dead.

Today was at Pipeline trail. I ran in a group with Amanda, Sarah, Patrick, Kevin, and Chris. I almost tripped several times because of all the rocks, and at the turnaround point we stopped to stretch and look at the city, because the view is really pretty. (Rhyming!) When we got back, we ran up the road to the boardwalk, across the cement bridge up the road to a wooden wall thingy, then back the same way to be at 10. Later, I did my core yoga style in Natalie's basement with Natalie and Jesse, it was probably the most fun I've ever had while doing core. Hehehe.

Today we met at Liberty Park for a workout. We did a lap around the park warm up, then split into groups for firemen. I was with Bill, Amanda, Natalie, Jesse, Becca, and Maggie. A little white dog started barking at us, and Bill was like, "I'm gonna make a taco out of you!" in a really funny accent, just thought I'd share that... After firemen we did a lap around the park cool down, then to the silver box thing and back. We did our arm swings and core then went home. I'm gonna be walking around Lagoon all afternoon so yeah.

It was too hot out by the time I woke up, and I was NOT feeling it today. I meant to go 4 miles to bring my mileage up from last week by 10, but no, now it's just an 8 mile jump. I'm so mad! I just ran around the neighborhood because it's shady, and I was still breaking a sweat, and I was just going a 9:30 pace. I hate this heat!